ELMWOOD PARK – A 25-year-old Paterson man was arrested on Tuesday and charged with selling 400 packets of heroin to an undercover police detective in Elmwood Park, according to Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli.

The alleged drug dealer, Jamel Palmer of East 29th Street, met the undercover detective in Elmwood Park on July 24 and sold 100 bags of heroin, the prosecutor said in a news release. At a subsequent meeting on Monday, Palmer sold an undercover detective another 300 bags of heroin, authorities said.

Palmer, who police said had no legal employment, was arrested during a third meeting in Elmwood Park on Tuesday, officials said.
Authorities have not disclosed where those meetings occurred, if they were all at the same location, or if they were all with the same detective.
Palmer is being held on $35,000 bail, the news release said.

The arrested resulted from a two-week investigation conducted by members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotics Task Force, the River Edge Police Department, the Elmwood Park Police Department and the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office.